A final sketch drawn from dispatches from TIME’s Sophia Yan:
Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, pretty much summed up the week’s confirmation hearings Thursday morning when he said the he could not envision filibustering Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, nor any of his …
The first day started off okay. After that, things went downhill. And a couple of times (ahem, Ricky Ricardo?) crossed the line. That’s the impression I came away with after speaking to Latino groups about Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings. Here’s a webstory on the perils this presents to the G.O.P.
A dispatch from TIME’s Sophia Yan who sat in for us at today’s hearings:
Judge Sonia Sotomayor relaxed a bit in the hot seat in her third day of confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court.
Most lawyers (and any one who’s seen Legally Blonde) know well Aristotle’s famous phrase: The law is reason free from passion.
The Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are either playing a very delicate game of good cop/bad cop with President Obama’s nominee to the nation’s highest court, Sonia Sotomayor, or they’re fracturing as a conference and a large number of Rs could end up voting for her.
Blessedly free of sports analogies:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also want to thank Senators Schumer and Gillibrand for that kind introduction.
In recent weeks, I have had the privilege and pleasure of meeting eighty-nine gracious Senators, including all the members of this Committee. I thank you for the time you have spent with me. …
Opening statements have begun in the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Today is bound to be bland: 19 opening statements from committee members followed by the highlight, Sotomayor’s opening remarks. Tomorrow and Wednesday will be the crucial days with senators taking turns questioning President Obama’s …
I’m back from the Last Frontier with this week’s dead tree cover story on Sarah Palin, written with the very excellent editor-at-large David Von Drehle. I don’t think this will be the last we hear from the soon-to-be-former governor. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of the story is how vehemently the Palin camp blames Barack Obama.
My interview with the soon to be ex-Governor of Alaska at her in-laws’ place in Dillingham, Alaska.
My Friday story was about why Alaska Governor Sarah Palin quit. Since coming up to Alaska on the weekend the reasons have grown five-fold. A web story out today. Let’s hope the reasons don’t proliferate as I’m running out of headlines.
It’s not because of those scurrilous sports complex rumors, she twitters. It’s about country; something, she says, we in the MSM will never understand.
Following up on Michael Scherer’s excellent post, here’s a web story on Sarah Palin’s surprise decision to resign as governor of Alaska. If you’d told me a governor was going to resign today, I’d have laid good money on Mark Sanford. Also, a friend made a good point at dinner: if one resigns 18 months ahead of schedule to avoid lame …
The constitution doesn’t require much participation from the American people. It protects their rights — free speech, to bear arms, a fair trial, etc – but it doesn’t even make voting mandatory. The one action it does require is for citizens to stand up and get counted, which is why every 10 years the census bureau floods the …
